The Reality of the DFL in MN WIth Milwaukee Echoes

Here's a clear-eyed history of the Democrat-Farm-Labor Party in Minnesota.  It will help you to understand where all the money is coming from (hint:  Communists here and abroad) and how deeply ingrained this is in that State.

 ...Working from inside the Democratic Party, Hubert Humphrey helped engineer the merger. The Farmer-Labor Party was riddled with Communists. Humphrey knew it, but he had no trouble working with them. At the time he was a Popular Front kind of guy with no enemies to the left.

Packing the 1946 party caucuses, Communists promptly took over the DFL in Hennepin County (including all of Minneapolis) and in the state. Then Minneapolis Mayor Humphrey could not even get elected a delegate to the state convention. Communists picked up no fewer than 120 of the 160 Hennepin County delegates. In Minneapolis’s Second Ward, both Humphrey and his ally Arthur Naftalin (future Minneapolis mayor and father of Paul Butterfield Blues Band keyboardist Mark Naftalin) went down to defeat....

It got worse for Humphrey.

... Humphrey was nevertheless named a delegate at large to the state party convention, where he was to serve as keynote speaker. As Humphrey rose to speak, however, he was shouted down as a “fascist” and “warmonger.” In his meticulous 1984 biography Humphrey, Carl Solberg records: “A beefy sergeant at arms shouted at him, ‘Sit down, you son of a bitch, or I’ll knock you down.’ He was not allowed to finish his speech.” Solberg comments: “It was an outright coup.”...

However, things changed--temporarily.

... [Humphrey] organized a successful counterattack on the Communists to throw them out of the party. By 1948, the task was more or less complete and Humphrey was on his way to national prominence....

Then the inevitable reconquista:

 ...Now Minneapolis appears to be ground zero of the revolution fomented by the radical left and its shock troops among the Antifa/Black Lives Matter gang. They are idiot Marxists who substitute the categories of race for the categories of class in the service of the revolution.

Their local supporters are already embedded in our political institutions. Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar sits in Congress and comes to town occasionally to rouse the rabble. Former Nation of Islam hustler Keith Ellison burrows from the inside as Minnesota Attorney General. Tim Walz mouths the obligatory platitudes and shibboleths as nominal leader of the state. Amy Klobuchar — the most popular Democrat in the state — has gone along for the ride. ...

The Communists Party was very active in Milwaukee, too.

 ...The party was also very active in Milwaukee’s labor movement, particularly in the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ unionization drives of the 1930s and 1940s. Most notably, Milwaukee communists assisted workers with organizing the CIO union, UAW Local 248, at Allis-Chalmers in 1937....

Russia overplayed its hand in the post-war period, which is why:

 ...In November 1949, at its eleventh annual convention in Cleveland, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled two member unions—the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America and the Farm Equipment Workers—for their alleged disloyalty to the CIO and support for the Communist Party. Within a year, an additional nine affiliates had been expelled....

George Meany--a genuine US patriot--ran the AFL and stomped out the CIO Communists--but the UAW's leadership right through Walter Reuther remained hard-Left, surviving only because the industries they organized were generally very profitable, thus being able to meet most of the UAW's demands.

You will note that there are some parallels here.  Baldwin and Evers, also 'popular Democrats' are mouthing the obligatory platitudes, as is the Really Dumb Mayor of Milwaukee.  Pocan of Madison and several other Democrats voice the (Communist) party line, duly transcribed by the "press."  But Milwaukee's VERY strong Roman Catholic presence countered the Communist pressures effectively.  Minnesota--particularly Minneapolis--does not have that strong a R.C. influence.  That IS the difference--so far.

(By the way, Milwaukee's Labor Press was still going strong in the '60's and '70's.  Fred Taylor was the publisher, and a very affable fellow.  He didn't wear a hammer-and-sickle lapel pin, but......)